AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 13

AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS.

THE COUNCIL AND THE COMPANY. ;.(BV IELEGBArn— special cokrespondentA Auckland, March 27. In tho Works . Committer's .report subihitted to last night's mooting of tho buy Council, a letter directed by tho City Solicitor to tho Auckland Elcctric Tramways Company, requiring payment of penalty undor tho deed of delegation, amounting to_tho sum of. £480, .was mentioned. . Tho Company's reply, dated tho 14th iiist.,_ asketl to bo allowed Until May 12 to.put tho matter before their Loudon office. Tlie . committee attached the following - torso statomont tor the consideration of tho Council. ; v Declined. Tho City Solicitor to-proceed forthwith." Mr. C. J. Parr, related the stops leading up -to. tho issue of tho. writ on tho .Company in tho shape of penalties for not having adhered to tho'terms of tho deed-.of delegation. Ho behoved , tho! writ would issue, and the mutter would comb on at the'nest civil sittings of the-Supremo Court. In that morning's paper, ho noticed that -an attack had been made on the' Council in reference to this matter by -tho Mayor of Parnoll. rlo had read'tho remarks with.no little astonishmont. Mr. Basley, it appeared, blamed the City Council for tho mishaps and misfortunes" of. tho ;Pamell servico.' Now 'Parnell had its own deed delegation, and should bo ablo t-o look after itself. '(Tho wholo thing was a magnificent argument for a 'greater. Auckland." Ho resented the remark .that tho Company could do what it liked with .tho City Council.. This was ..untrue and| absolutely conteinntible. "Lot; ine ._tell; ..Mr. Basley," continued Mr;- ParTrwith .some heat, '"that the writ has been issued 'rind' will como on.. What has Parnell; done to help tho - fcity; to get tho . Compiny 1 to. ' toe the mark ' P Tho city' Ms compelled-, the Company :'to. iiiireaso .the! hririibe'r .bf cars .running by thirty., by .its pbrsißteiit attitude'in tlie iriatter. The City Council has alS0 ( enforced 'penalties ,amounting to £320. A considerable number, of new. cars, continued the speaker, were biiirig put. on. : Mr; Parr concluded with a quotation from an article by the .Rev, W. Slade on visited," and which contained .the following: , . "As usual, it is the most backward - places .whichare hardest'/ to ; .persuade : .. into tlib brehdtli of viow / aiid,.'coiir'age which must'gb.tb, the execution of great enterprises; , Unprogressive . Parnell, the oldest arid slowest of Auckland boroughs, seems disposed to play tho part of Littlo . Peddlington." /' (Laughter.) " The rcV ports of the Parnefl Council- meetings ' suggest .tho, level/of an English village vestry, and rtcali ifco days of Bumble;'' (Renewed, laughter.) . The, recommendation_ was approved. It was. also dwided to! give sixty days' notice to -the Company in which •to bring their ' promises, plant, machinery, and cars up to the required state of efficiency. . : ■ Mr. Pair, <upon£frhfcto-/m<rtion.- it. was so 'decided) stated'that the writ", about to.be issued .was aimed at' .the shortage of cars. While this notice, would prepare tho way for a.'- further, one. regarding - the shortage of power, tho committee was..-no>v. satisfied, after examination,; that the power-station' was not up' to tho mark, and hoped that this would. bring about a remedy. ■ •